“All those millions of euros they’ve received from the government—Is it hush money?”—Solidaridad Secretary-General, Rodrigo Alonso
The Orbán cabinet has put in place the means for Hungary to be independent from Russian natural gas. In the course of 12 years, it built links to all possible alternative energy sources; the fact that a number of them are inoperable is due to other countries.
It is spurious to insist, as many do, on a contradiction between conceiving of Greek independence through a yearning for the Byzantine past, on the one hand, and the romantic-nationalist lionizing of ancient Hellas, on the other.
The Conference for the Future of Europe displayed a lack of expertise on the limitations of EU powers as enshrined in the Union’s constitution.
Incentives driving the trend, which has been witnessed across Western Europe, include preferential treatment in the form of protection from deportation, increased social welfare benefits, and special rights in criminal cases.
At 3.0%, Sweden ranked lowest in year-to-year GDP growth; Germany came in second from the bottom at 3.7%
Child benefit payments transferred from Germany to foreign bank accounts climbed to all-time highs last year, reaching nearly a half a billion euros, as the country’s foreign population continues to balloon. Data from the Federal Employment Agency, released following an information request from the anti-globalist Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party, has revealed that 459 million […]
Western political philosophy focuses on inherent features of man, and so Europeans were able to build a system which recognises and respects them. It is arguably the best system in the world, which is evidenced by the success of the countries that adopted it. It safeguards everything we value, and we should do everything to preserve it.
PM Orbán’s resolute neutrality has placed him in the cross hairs of Ukrainian ultranationalists
Critics view the new technology as a means for accelerating the establishment of a surveillance society.
If journalism helped Scruton to synthesise ideas in a single thought, it also displayed the rich literary gifts which first brought him to the attention of the British public in the 1970s. For him, journalism was much more than conveying information, news, or opinion. It was an attempt to stir the imagination of the reader so that the ‘unfashionable opinion’ being expressed might become theirs.
The novel illustrates St. Catherine of Siena’s famous quote, “The path to Heaven is Heaven.” St. Catherine did not say whether the path felt like Heaven at the time, but she was certain that it was, in all essentials, Heaven. In other words, Heaven bleeds backwards into our lives, until every moment is colored with its otherworldly hues. That is the feat Vodolazkin accomplishes in this novel.
